While we know Facebook is testing a version of its main app on Windows 10 in a private beta, little has been said about the planned Facebook Messenger app. Now new screenshots have reportedly been leaked, showing the Windows 10 PC version of Facebook Messenger in action.

The images come from WindowsBlogItalia and come with a brief breakdown of its features:

Get notifications so you never miss a message

See when you have messages waiting for you with a live tile

Send photos, videos, GIFs and more

Bring your conversations to life with stickers

Know when people have seen your messages

Create groups for the people you message most—name them and set group photos

Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation

Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them

With Build 2016 coming up in less than three weeks, it's more than possible that Microsoft will officially announced this and many more Windows 10 apps at that time.

Update:WindowsBlogItalia has now posted a quick hands-on video with the app as well, which you can check out below (in Italian).

Exciting but when will third-party windows apps support video calls, I love Microsoft Windows 10 mobile and PC but please enable support for video calls on third-party apps because this alone keeps Windows behind other OS.

I don't use Facebook Messenger on my PC, but if I do it's within Facebook. So this is none issue thing for me. On Windows Phones though. Why isn't Facebook Messenger part of Facebook or at least tied into the overall messaging app?

I guess this is nice for people who have Windows 10 and either don't have a phone or don't keep there phone near them. Which is nobody I know.

I hope we can now see why Microsoft decided to can the android porting tools for apps. Apple and microsoft work better. Android has features and great OEMs but i still feel its a mess. And in a year from today w10m.will.be as smooth as silk and quick as usain bolt with great UWA. Mark my words

This is really great! Based on the video, it really works like the iOS version together with those nice animations and features. I really hope that before its public release (beta or not), they should change the buttons, toggles and some other elements to be inline with Windows official UX and remove iOS specific UI, not feature of course. The notification is also clearly from iOS that it needs to be changed to use Windows Notification Toast with reply function. That back button is really needed to be redesigned to have Arrow icon used in Windows 10.

The feature set looks like a good start already, we just need at least voice call, video call, Live Tile, actionable notifications, Windows Share Contract (to share things from other app), and also a swipable pivot control to switch between Recent, People and Settings.

I hope its interface goes prime time too. With the android really making its day in developing and up-to-date updates, I really want to see messenger would be way better in terms of UI, functionality and more.

Cool cool cool! Keep the official apps coming for Windows 10 and Windows 10 mobile. No offence Microsoft, I'm tired of your app on mobile and would rather facebook get all the blame or lack thereof for their apps and services. I hope both the facebook made official apps for facebook and fb messenger also make it to mobile counterpart as well as supporting continuum.

To be fair even iOS doesn't have Chat Heads outside the Facebook app, which indicates the limitation/restriction of iOS API. Still it would be nice if Windows 10 Mobile have bit more open about to allow it to happen. Even Microsoft can come up their own Windows solution for floating app objects that not just Facebook can use, but any 3rd-party developers.

W10M now even lags behind the new iOS feature of Picture-in-Picture mode which is great for Skype (and any video call service), video app, etc. We need this even for Windows 10 for Universal apps.

This messenger app will very highly likely end up on mobile which is practically a IOS port (it's been said it's a UWP so if it's on PC, it'll be on mobile. Just waiting for MS to announce it which will probably be in Build 2016 this month.) But yeah hopefully they do the same for Facebook too

Looks like this will be real Universal app,for mobile as well. For me would be cool if they had option to answer from action center and black theme,call support and would be really cool to see facebook in black,haha,but i think facebook now will have lot of updates to all OS's because i found some litlle tweeks here and there on facebook web, so i think its more like facebook is pushing on w10 then microsoft.

Turn off the location function in the Messenger app and it won't heat your phone to the point you can cook an egg on it and drain your battery in 30 minutes. Since I did that, I've been happy with it for the most part.

Suspected for a while that there may be some big hitting apps awaiting the official W10M release.... which seems to be set to coinicide with Build too, so might make for an interesting event and series of announcements! #HeresToHoping

Great! FB messenger, whatsapp and twitter are just about the only non-W10M apps I use on daily basis. Newsflow is my go-to RSS reader, the new instagram beta kicked 6tag, 6tin works like a carm, and of course lets not forget Windows Central

Actually what Microsoft should've done is in Messaging app the integration is much tighter to the app that it acts like a wrapper. Means that the integrated 3rd party services like Facebook Messenger, it will have all of its features inside the Messaging app as if you are using the Messenger app contained. So basically its like you put the chat window inside the Messaging app.

Problem with that idea is that it would use API's that may not be available. Also MS have had FB integration in windows phone8.1 and for some reason removed it due to technical issue (I think it was API based? But don't quote me on it) so I don't it will happen unfortunately. Unless a miracle happens. It's a good idea though. One messenger app for all so-to-speak.

Basic API to integrate the basic Facebook Messenger chat maybe is missing. I'm also not sure about if any 3rd-party apps can integrate to Windows Messaging app, it seems not since Microsoft don't even talk about it (let alone how poor Messaging app currently).

I really wish Microsoft should realize that idea again but change how they execute things for the better. Like what I said above, Microsoft should open a new API that it can integrate app features deeply to the Windows Messaging app as if you're using a 3rd-party app. It's the idea that the Messaging app acts like an container to 3rd-party messaging service, as long as the app is installed and if the user option set to use between the integrated messaging or dedicated app.

Windows Phone 8.1 removed the integration is probably because Microsoft can't caught up with the API changes of Facebook Messenger that it's always features behind, leaving the integration in the dust. It's a partly Microsoft fault though that the integration wasn't open which nobody 3rd-party apps can take advantage of it. Really a waste because of poor execution and and half-baked idea on Microsoft's part.

Similar story to Rooms feature where it's became less useful because it's only Windows Phone users can take advantage of it and the lack of integration to other services. Then Microsoft realized few people use it because few people have Windows Phone and not all Windows Phone user have family, friends, collegues have Windows Phone to use it. Instead of actually extending the idea to make it useful, they just outright kill it wasting the potential. Then months/years later competitor introduced similar solution and Microsoft tries to catch up. Cycles continues...

Well, maybe eventually they'll re-add the wasted potentials. Who knows buts its wishful thinking. But yeah I agree with you, MS need to play ball with other companies'/third-party apps if they want to gain more apps etc. The more API's they open for Devs or at least relax the restrictions on how isolated they are (like you said, even if its just allowing a connection to the messenger app Po

I don't think we can expect companies will go to extra effort to integrate with the OS more directly, ports are coming and that's great if it brings app that otherwise wouldn't come to Windows.

Also, if the average users ask "is the Facebook Messenger app on Windows" and you reply that "it's integrated into the OS" they would see it as a negative, even though a lot of us can see the benefits of that.

"Also, if the average users ask "is the Facebook Messenger app on Windows" and you reply that "it's integrated into the OS" they would see it as a negative, even though a lot of us can see the benefits of that."

Well the integration I suggest isn't the same that we used to have where only Microsoft maintains and we only rely on integrated experience (which is poorly executed unfortunately). Integration solution shouldn't even need to sacrifice not having an app, rather a feature that user can use to have more seamless experience and it also brings something unique to the platform. Still it depends how they will execute that integrated experience.

Integrated experiences should really be open to 3rd-party developers to plug-in their apps to the "hub". Similar implementation how the Shar Contract works since Windows 8, where it actually calls the app UI to process the sharing and only the OS handles the container and initial execution. Similar to let say the Messaging app acting as a container for 3rd-party messaging app, but this feature is rather optional so for user who still prefers seperate experience.

So the answer can be "Yes, the Facebook Messenger app is available on Windows, but also you can integrate it to the Messaging/SMS app like iMessage if you want" something like that.

It's a UWP app. Don't worry the mobile app will come. Remember the title says "leaked" not "announced". Microsoft are likely going to announce PC and mobile messenger app at Build 2016 in a few weeks :) I use messenger every day and I agree the 8.1 app is testing my limits with lack of new features and old design, but you just need patience :)

They can tweak the design to be bit close to Windows 10 design, especially that Windows 10 have rounded corners. So it just a matter of toggle switches, check box, buttons, dialog boxes and few other elements needed to be not rounded and more inline to be Windows 10 looks. Though we can't expect to be completely Windows design since Facebook still have to retain their own design to be consistent cross-platform. Even Android has similar design like this even though Material Design is drastically different and more colorful than this.

That just seems like ios hate for the sake of it. I didn't come to Windows for some unique design. If Facebook want a consistent look and feel across platforms, then more power to them. I'd much rather have that than have the offering they have up at the moment, that's for sure. I really don't get all this ios hate.

The same thing could be said about WindowsCentral app on desktop and yet I now use 99% of the time only the WindowsCentral app.. I would probably use MyTube also on the PC if I could get message notifications on it.

The Snapchat guy seems to be a dick and doesn`t want to bring his app on Win platform, not that I care but some other people do, and the rest give them time, seem that Win 10 is gaining traction, even tough some people were let down by some apps being removed from the store, many of them being totally useless. At this point since Facebook is my only social media platform that I use, it`s the only thing that I feel the app gap by switching from android to windows.

Unfortunately its been told that the CEO has this immature hatred to Microsoft or something.

But always, W10M needs to also gets better in marketshare. Snapchat is really just for mobile similar to Instagram. Though it would be nice to have desktop/tablets too. There are some apps that are not applicable to be both.

THIS^ I would also like interactive notifications for Facebook on pc. I downloaded the app yesterday and I didn't have time to play, I didn't see interactive notifications like phone and it bothered me a little

It's also still in beta, and not available to just anyone. I still can't get it myself and am stuck with either the browser or the Windows 8.1 app (which, quite honestly, is far worse than the mobile app that Microsoft maintains for Windows phones.

Hey as its a UWP it will def also be on mobile, or it wouldn't be universal, so hopefully it should be the exact same UI too. As long as they keep updating it alongside IOS and Android its a good app for me though honestly. It could be a UI exact same as IOS, but if they regularly update it I'm not fussed.

It will depend on the developer wanting to support mobile too. They have the option to target where they want their apps on. Just like Twitter for now which is only available on PC. The one on mobile is the old WP 8.1 app

well yea since the UWP is what they want to do 1 code 2 different looks but ofc this takes time since we talk for a lot of work to do from ground zero so give them time finally facebook develops its own app no need for ms to do so...;)